EXPORT OF EGGS

Evening Star, Issue 18690, 19 July 1924, Page 8

EXPORT OF EGGS

THIS TEAR’S SHIPMENT. [Sprciu, to tub ‘Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. In connection with the export of eggs from New Zealand this year a meeting of the New Zealand Poultry Executive was held at Wellington this week to make arrangements for the shipments to be made in August and September. Mr G. H. Bradford, manager of the Canterbury Co-operative Poultry Producers, who attended the meeting as the representative of Christchurch and Dunedin, and also as the representative of Christchurch and Dunedin poultrymen, returned from Wellington yesterday. In conversation with a reporter ho stated that arrangements had been made to ship 1.407.000 dozen eggs from the South Island between August 18 and September 30, and during the same period 104,000 dozen would bo exported from the North Island. Ho said that about August 18 the steamer Port Curtis would load 6CO cases of eggs at Timaru and Oamaru. The first shipment to he sent from Lyttelton would be on September 9, when the lonic would load 1.000 cases. On ’the following day the Kaikoura would lift 1,040 cases at Port Chalmers. On September 25 the Rotorua would load 850 cases at Port Chalmers, and on September 30 she would load 1,200 cases at Lyttelton. This made a total of 2,200 case's from Lyttelton, 1,890 from Port Chalmers, 600 from Timaru and Oamaru —a grand total of 4,690 cases from the South Island during August and September. Thirty dozen eggs would bo packed in each case, so this gave a grand total of 140,700 dozen.